 | 1837 - 754 halaman
...with intellectual nature is necessary ; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools...axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and roost materials for conversation ; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians."... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 halaman
...estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character innm-di • ately appears. Those authors, therefore, are to be read...materials for conversation ; and these purposes are beat served by poets, orators, and historians. Let me not be censured for this digression as pedantic... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 halaman
...emergence, hat one may know another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill n hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character...axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, mdmost materials for conversation ; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 halaman
...emergence, that one ma) know another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character...schools that supply most axioms of prudence, most principíese! moral truth, and most materials for conversation ; and these purposes are best served... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 halaman
...another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; nit ddison immediately returned, 'When, Rag, were you...away." Captain Rag was a name which he got at Oxford nre best served by poet«, orators, and historians. Let me not be censured for this digression as pedantic... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 halaman
...skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears. 1 hose authors, therefore, are to be read at schools that...conversation ; and these purposes are best served by poet«, orators, and historians. Let me not be censured for this digression as pedantic or paradoxical... | |
 | Sir William Henry Sleeman - 1844 - 590 halaman
...emergence, that one may know another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character...are best served by poets, orators, and historians." — Life of Milton. CHAPTER XXVI. PILGRIMS OF INDIA. THERE is nothing which strikes an European more... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 halaman
...another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy ; but liis moral and prudential character immediately appears....historians. Let me not be censured for this digression as pedantic or paradoxical ; for, if I have Milton against me, I have Socrates on my side. It was his... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1846 - 478 halaman
...that one man may know another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy : but his moral and prudential character...are best served by poets, orators, and historians. (Warton, 117.) — Milton afterwards reasoned better on this subject, PL viii. 191. EULER. This is... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1846 - 330 halaman
...emergence, that one may know another half his life, without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostatics or astronomy; but his moral and prudential character...these purposes are best served by Poets, Orators, and Historians.—Life of Milton. Robert Hall, born 1764, died 1831. It is an undeniable fact, that no... | |
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Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools, that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians. 
